UNC AND RUSH RADIO
ATTEMPT TO HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH THE UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR OVER THE UNIVERSITY'S INVOLVEMENT WITH RUSH RADIO.
Please note: In the nest to last sentence, I meant to say: If you and your kind had been in charge....[not around] one day i'll learn not to write so fast in the heat of passion!
Rick, this is precisely what I expected from the sports corporation our once great university has now become. What a wimp you and your superiors are for dancing around this very important and timely subject. You and your bosses are not worthy of the many fine people associated with the university in years past who were people of integrity who stood up for what was right no matter what the cost. So what if Tar Heel Sports Radio Network is an independent contractor; it is still a subcontractor of the university. So what if the network includes 50 "diverse" stations. Not one of them except for Rush Radio has ever broadcast anything nearly so vile as what Rush Limbaugh said about a young Georgetown University Law Student. Where in all the corporate gobbledygook in your response is there even a hint of understanding just how serious an insult this was not just to one female student, but to all women? If you and your kind had been around in the 1960s, the University would still be segregated and the Speaker Ban would still be in force. I ask you, sir, finally, have you no shame?
Very sincerely, Perry Deane Young
From: Rick Steinbacher
To: pyoung3@bellsouth.net
Sent: Tue, March 6, 2012 5:29:32 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Rush Radio
Perry,
I am responding to your email to Chancellor Thorp. I am the Associate Athletic Director for Marketing at UNC and in that role serve as the contract manager for our contract with Tar Heel Sports Properties, a division of Learfield Sports which owns and operates the Tar Heel Sports Radio Network as an independent contractor of the University of North Carolina.
Tar Heel Sports Properties has over 50 affiliates on the radio network and they work hard to provide as much "blanket" radio coverage of the entire state of North Carolina as possible for our men's basketball and football live play by play broadcasts. They look for the stations that will agree to carry their radio broadcasts that cover as much of the population in any particular geographic area as possible. In this regard a 100,000 watt FM station such as WRDU 106.1 in the Triangle provides excellent coverage for the Triangle Region and surrounding counties in North Carolina.
The 50 affiliates of the Tar Heel Sports Network include a diverse assortment of non-game time content including rock, country (which WRDU 106.1 was when they first became an affiliate), liberal, conservative, Spanish and many other types of programming. The University, the Athletics Department, and Tar Heel Sports Properties do not control or in any way endorse the normal programming of any of the stations that air the game broadcasts including the recent comments by Rush Limbaugh aired on WRDU 106.1.
Sincerely,
Rick Steinbacher
From: Perry Deane Young [mailto:pyoung3@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:35 AM
To: Thorp, Holden
Subject: Rush Radio
Dear Chancellor Thorp: As a proud UNC graduate, I am embarrassed and ashamed of the silence you "most can hear" regarding the University's involvement with Rush Radio. In my day, there would have been a chorus of indignant faculty members and students protesting this outrage. What Rush Limbaugh did goes way beyond the pale of decency and demands a response from all who are involved with him and his affiliate radio stations. To borrow Rush's own imagery, what do you call a university that would do anything for money?
Very sincerely, Perry Deane Young [class of 1963--and 1993]
www.perrydeaneyoung.com
Please note: In the nest to last sentence, I meant to say: If you and your kind had been in charge....[not around] one day i'll learn not to write so fast in the heat of passion!
Rick, this is precisely what I expected from the sports corporation our once great university has now become. What a wimp you and your superiors are for dancing around this very important and timely subject. You and your bosses are not worthy of the many fine people associated with the university in years past who were people of integrity who stood up for what was right no matter what the cost. So what if Tar Heel Sports Radio Network is an independent contractor; it is still a subcontractor of the university. So what if the network includes 50 "diverse" stations. Not one of them except for Rush Radio has ever broadcast anything nearly so vile as what Rush Limbaugh said about a young Georgetown University Law Student. Where in all the corporate gobbledygook in your response is there even a hint of understanding just how serious an insult this was not just to one female student, but to all women? If you and your kind had been around in the 1960s, the University would still be segregated and the Speaker Ban would still be in force. I ask you, sir, finally, have you no shame?
Very sincerely, Perry Deane Young
From: Rick Steinbacher
To: pyoung3@bellsouth.net
Sent: Tue, March 6, 2012 5:29:32 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Rush Radio
Perry,
I am responding to your email to Chancellor Thorp. I am the Associate Athletic Director for Marketing at UNC and in that role serve as the contract manager for our contract with Tar Heel Sports Properties, a division of Learfield Sports which owns and operates the Tar Heel Sports Radio Network as an independent contractor of the University of North Carolina.
Tar Heel Sports Properties has over 50 affiliates on the radio network and they work hard to provide as much "blanket" radio coverage of the entire state of North Carolina as possible for our men's basketball and football live play by play broadcasts. They look for the stations that will agree to carry their radio broadcasts that cover as much of the population in any particular geographic area as possible. In this regard a 100,000 watt FM station such as WRDU 106.1 in the Triangle provides excellent coverage for the Triangle Region and surrounding counties in North Carolina.
The 50 affiliates of the Tar Heel Sports Network include a diverse assortment of non-game time content including rock, country (which WRDU 106.1 was when they first became an affiliate), liberal, conservative, Spanish and many other types of programming. The University, the Athletics Department, and Tar Heel Sports Properties do not control or in any way endorse the normal programming of any of the stations that air the game broadcasts including the recent comments by Rush Limbaugh aired on WRDU 106.1.
Sincerely,
Rick Steinbacher
From: Perry Deane Young [mailto:pyoung3@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:35 AM
To: Thorp, Holden
Subject: Rush Radio
Dear Chancellor Thorp: As a proud UNC graduate, I am embarrassed and ashamed of the silence you "most can hear" regarding the University's involvement with Rush Radio. In my day, there would have been a chorus of indignant faculty members and students protesting this outrage. What Rush Limbaugh did goes way beyond the pale of decency and demands a response from all who are involved with him and his affiliate radio stations. To borrow Rush's own imagery, what do you call a university that would do anything for money?
Very sincerely, Perry Deane Young [class of 1963--and 1993]
www.perrydeaneyoung.com
posted by Perry Deane Young at 4:14 PM
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